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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The Kyoto Economic Review
Author: Kyoto University Economic Review
Author: The Economic Review
Author: The American Economic Review
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Includes papers and proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Economic Association. Covers all areas of economic research.
The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming
Author: David G. VictorPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400824060
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key nations are facing difficulty in meeting their Kyoto commitments; and developing countries face no limit on their emissions of the gases that cause global warming. In this clear and cogent book-reissued in paperback with an afterword that comments on recent events--David Victor explains why the Kyoto Protocol was never likely to become an effective legal instrument. He explores how its collapse offers opportunities to establish a more realistic alternative. Global warming continues to dominate environmental news as legislatures worldwide grapple with the process of ratification of the December 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The collapse of the November 2000 conference at the Hague showed clearly how difficult it will be to bring the Kyoto treaty into force. Yet most politicians, policymakers, and analysts hailed it as a vital first step in slowing greenhouse warming. David Victor was not among them. Kyoto's fatal flaw, Victor argues, is that it can work only if emissions trading works. The Protocol requires industrialized nations to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases to specific targets. Crucially, the Protocol also provides for so-called "emissions trading," whereby nations could offset the need for rapid cuts in their own emissions by buying emissions credits from other countries. But starting this trading system would require creating emission permits worth two trillion dollars--the largest single invention of assets by voluntary international treaty in world history. Even if it were politically possible to distribute such astronomical sums, the Protocol does not provide for adequate monitoring and enforcement of these new property rights. Nor does it offer an achievable plan for allocating new permits, which would be essential if the system were expanded to include developing countries. The collapse of the Kyoto Protocol--which Victor views as inevitable--will provide the political space to rethink strategy. Better alternatives would focus on policies that control emissions, such as emission taxes. Though economically sensible, however, a pure tax approach is impossible to monitor in practice. Thus, the author proposes a hybrid in which governments set targets for both emission quantities and tax levels. This offers the important advantages of both emission trading and taxes without the debilitating drawbacks of each. Individuals at all levels of environmental science, economics, public policy, and politics-from students to professionals--and anyone else hoping to participate in the debate over how to slow global warming will want to read this book.
The Economics of Optimal Growth Pathways
Author: S. Niggol SeoPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031207548
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Every society aspires to be prosperous. It also endeavors to minimize the side effects of economic growth. This book entitled The Economics of Optimal Growth Pathways addresses numerous trade-offs faced by society to achieve prosperity and explores the best possible growth pathways. The theories explored in this book serve as a springboard to better understand key challenges and aspects of the economy, including food security, land use, forest and resource management, capital markets and interest rates, oil and gas extraction, fish and marine resources, saving and investment, and climate change. This book elucidates the concept of optimal economic growth pathways while addressing the challenges faced in natural resources and life on the planet. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in resource and environmental economics.
Economic Systems Analysis and Policies
Author: S. CohenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230234119
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The book brings together economic systems and development economics, offering theoretical foundations and empirical evidence. It examines competition, technology, governance, public goods, income transfers, transition, performance, convergence and displacement in a range of countries worldwide.
The Asian Economy
Author: Dilip DasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136705961
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This book analyzes the impact of the global financial crisis and the Great Recession on the Asian economy. Dilip K. Das delves into the most significant and germane issues related to the Asian economy during the crisis, how it coped with them and how it eventually emerged from them.
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Pacific Rim
Author: Inderjit KaurPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199751994
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
"A survey of the economy of the Pacific Rim region"--
The Dissemination of Economic Ideas
Author: Heinz-Dieter KurzPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 0857935585
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This highly illuminating book marks a significant stage in our growing understanding of how the development of national traditions of economic thought has been affected by both internal and external factors. The expert contributors set an explicit agenda for the study of the dissemination of economic ideas across four centuries, acknowledging that the history of dissemination is also a history of the flux of economic beliefs, rendering any generalisation difficult, if not impossible. Topics explored include systems of political economy, European and American interactions, the diffusion of economic ideas in South-Eastern Europe and beyond, and the exchange of ideas between Japan and the rest of the world. This book will prove a fascinating and stimulating read for scholars and researchers in the field of economics generally, and more specifically in heterodox economics, the history of economic thought and economic theory.